CBC school management system for Kenyan schools

CBC is not 8-4-4 with different words

CBC asks a school to record something genuinely different. Not one mark per subject per term, but progress against objectives inside sub strands inside strands inside learning areas, judged as a level of competency rather than a score out of a hundred.

Most systems handle this by keeping their old marks table and renaming the columns. It looks fine until a parent asks what Approaching Expectation actually means for their child in a particular strand, and the school discovers the underlying record was never granular enough to answer.

Meanwhile teachers carry the cost. Assessment gets kept in personal notebooks and exercise books, then transcribed into a spreadsheet at the end of term in a rush, which is exactly when mistakes get made and exactly when the information is least useful.

How Enaton handles it

The structure is modelled properly, so a learning area holds strands, a strand holds sub strands, and assessment attaches to the objectives underneath. Because the record is that granular, a report card can say something specific rather than issuing a single vague level for a whole subject.

Teachers record as they go rather than reconstructing at the end of term, and what they record is what the report card is built from. Nothing is transcribed twice.

Set up the way CBC is defined

• Learning areas per grade, assigned to classes and to teachers
• Strands, sub strands and objectives underneath each learning area
• Competency based grading scales the school configures rather than inherits
• Learners mapped to the learning areas they actually take

Assessment as it happens

• Formative assessment recorded through the term, not reconstructed from memory in week eleven
• Summative assessment for end of term, with the two kept distinct because they mean different things
• Assessment books that follow a learner across years, so progression is visible rather than reset each term
• A per learner view and a whole class view, because a teacher needs both

Report cards parents understand

• CBC report cards showing competency by learning area and, where it helps, by strand
• Teacher comments where they add something rather than as a mandatory box
• The fee balance printed alongside, if the school wants it, drawn from the same figure the parent sees in the portal
• Delivered to the parent portal as well as printed, so nothing depends on a learner carrying paper home

Running CBC alongside another curriculum

Plenty of Kenyan schools run CBC in the lower years and something else higher up, or offer Cambridge alongside it. Enaton treats each curriculum on its own terms in the same school, with its own structure and grading, rather than forcing one into the shape of the other.

Who this is for

Teachers record once, in a structure that matches how they actually teach. Heads of department can see coverage across a grade. Principals get performance analysis without waiting for a compilation exercise. Parents get a report card that says something specific about their child.